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Our Virtual Valley runs closed yesterday but not to worry!  Please do make sure and get your run in and report results to originalrunguru@gmail.com   Our first batch of race … Read More

Few things are more American than the Boston Marathon.  For the first time in 124 years the race has been canceled. Bye bye Miss American Pie. Here are some thoughts.  … Read More

All 50 states now in some stage of reopening.  People are beginning to emerge from their cocoons. Linda and I remain business as usual, happily ensconced in the r-pod.  Not … Read More

I’m going to start featuring times and stories from our Valley 7 Lakes Marathon/Half Marathon virtual runners.  Using a slightly different paradigm than the big box events.  Runners are emailing … Read More

Most of you are finding plenty of spare moments.  More free time than accustomed to.  My modus operandi; keep busy and chill when I will.  Some days, this being one … Read More

Forty years of road race management chops. I’ve seen our sport morph through MANY iterations.  The one thing that has never changed is the indomitable spirit of  runners.  Adapting through … Read More

Today’s few words going out to everyone that has reached out and expressed positive vibes regarding our Nebraska Trail Run and Valley 7 Lakes Marathon being  converted to virtual  events.  … Read More

Well, how do you like yourself?  Your real self?  The one without the weekly trip to get clipped and dipped.  Getting a little scraggly, perhaps bordering on the unkempt and … Read More

Well drats y’all.  It is with some pretty heavy hearts that we announce the V7LM and Half Marathon are going virtual for 2020.  Our second year in a row to … Read More

It will be in 2021 if we are lucky.  In today’s Real World it is hard to predict when we will be able to measure ourselves against our fellows.  Impossible … Read More